Minor earthquake, 2.8599999 mag has occurred near Pāhala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8599999 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pāhala in Hawaii on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 01:16:30 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 01:16:30 / December 7, 2024 @ 1:16 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.40766906738 West, latitude 19.250667572021 North, depth = 33.169998168945 km. Unique identifier: hv74558612. Ids that are associated to the event: hv74558612. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.169998168945 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8599999 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.40766906738° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.250667572021° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.169998168945 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NE of Pāhala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-07 01:16:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-07 01:17:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	126	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	hv	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01624	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv74558612	Id of event.
Event Code	74558612	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv74558612,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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